The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, Containing His Letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas Island, Where He was Imprisoned Four Years for Alleged Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; with Statements of Mrs. Samuel A. Mudd, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler Regarding the Assassination...
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. First edition. Bland and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 326 pages.
The story of Dr. Mudd's entanglement with the Lincoln assassination due to his medical treatment of John Wilkes Booth's broken leg as the assassin fled through Southern Maryland.
Much of the content here consists of letters written by Dr. Mudd to his wife and others, while incarcerated at Ft. Jefferson. As these letters were written for the recipients' eyes only rather than public perusal, they provide a very candid view of Mudd's thoughts on the whole affair and his own case in particular.
Laid in at front are a few related newspaper clippings, now shielded in a Mylar sleeve. A very nice copy of this scarce original Neale imprint.
Ref. KRICK 333; EICHER 364.
Bound in coarse maroon cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt, with black rules. Top edge gilt. Light rubs and a few shallow bumps to extremities, old bookseller label at lower inner corner of front pastedown, some minor browning to endpapers, touch of sunning to spine. Near fine.
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